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> Could S.C.M. software include a “workers’-rights” component—a counterpart to PP/DS, incorporating data on working conditions? That exists, it is called compl

> Could S.C.M. software include a “workers’-rights” component—a counterpart to PP/DS, incorporating data on working conditions? That exists, it is called compliance software, and usually serves as an input (of constraints) to the SCM. It might be labor compliance (hours worked, breaks, etc.), it might be food safety compliance (max temperature, max time in storage, etc.), drug compliance, etc. The article is a bit of a joke, it reads like assigning a humanities professor to report on resource optimization techniques. Oh, wait, that's exactly what the article is! But well, it is the New Yorker, no reason to expect something different.

anigbrowl 8y ago
It's no more of a joke than assuming that software developers are going to take ethical considerations into account by default. Categorically dismissing the whole field of humanities seems like the arrogance of ignorance.
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dang 8y ago
Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which ask you not to snark and not to post shallow dismissals here? Your comment would be fine with just the first paragraph. Smearing the author like that is uncivil, and dissing the publication just adds noise.
- thanatropism 8y ago
  To be fair, it was a qualified dismissal (a proof by counter example, essentially) followed by color (or off-color) commentary. There's probably more polite ways of saying "this is the typical bias of non-stem core commentators on stem core issues". But we can't all to polish our submissions to essay or press release standards, and devaluing negative off-hand remarks will only incentivize positive off-hand remarks, i.e. sycophancy. Take these as off-hand remarks on the concept of civil discussion. I fully acknowledge your role and experience as the relevant qualified expert.

anigbrowl 8y ago

It's no more of a joke than assuming that software developers are going to take ethical considerations into account by default. Categorically dismissing the whole field of humanities seems like the arrogance of ignorance.

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dang 8y ago

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which ask you not to snark and not to post shallow dismissals here? Your comment would be fine with just the first paragraph. Smearing the author like that is uncivil, and dissing the publication just adds noise.

thanatropism 8y ago
To be fair, it was a qualified dismissal (a proof by counter example, essentially) followed by color (or off-color) commentary. There's probably more polite ways of saying "this is the typical bias of non-stem core commentators on stem core issues". But we can't all to polish our submissions to essay or press release standards, and devaluing negative off-hand remarks will only incentivize positive off-hand remarks, i.e. sycophancy. Take these as off-hand remarks on the concept of civil discussion. I fully acknowledge your role and experience as the relevant qualified expert.